It is made clear that appointing a woman to this role is quite shocking in such a traditional setting. The protagonist is Rebecca Buckfast, the new headteacher. Roy Straitley, the elderly Classics teacher now with worrying health issues, makes a return although he mostly serves as a listening ear, only occasionally adding a noteworthy opinion. The story is told from two points of view and across two main timelines. Sadly, I struggled to engage this time round. The books are described as psychological thrillers and I was expecting the tense and taut pacing of the earlier works. Whilst not a particular fan of Dark Academia as a genre, I very much enjoyed two of the previous books in this series – Gentlemen and Players and Different Class. I follow Joanne Harris on Twitter and had been looking forward to reading A Narrow Door since she mentioned some time ago that her work in progress was a return to St Oswald’s school in Malbry.
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